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Test lamp for capless bulb flashguard; torch bulb in green transparent housing.

Flashgun test lamp

Portable; 50, 100, 150 joules switchable; two sockets for flash. No 1789.

Courtney Courier electronic flash

28cm diameter polished reflector. Plastic body holding flashlight batteries. Green battery or bulb testing lamp. 2-pin socket for flash lead. MES screw fitting. Trigger contact.

Sashalite flashgun

Ceramic circular tray with recess for cottonwool; charge of powder placed in central funnel; wool soaked in spirit and ignited; rubber bulb with inflatable reservoir - inflated while tube clamped. When clamp (missing) is released, powder is blown up through flame.

Kodak Stoneware Magnesium Flashlamp

Pentax AF 290T electronic flash gun in case, c. 1980s.

Pentax AF 290T electronic flash gun in case

Leitz "Synchronblitzen" flashgun with collapsible reflector.

Leitz Flashgun With Collapsible Reflector

Flash head only; oval/oblong brass container with wick surrounding flattened funnel. Brass 'snuffer' and projective cap. Wood and cork stopper; container base and pneumatic tube system missing. Phot. News Yearbook 1894, p 155.

Todd-Forrest Magnesium flash lamp

1889-1899

VS 27 Nebro flash lamp by Neville Brown, London. 5" diameter aluminium reflector with socket for capped bulbs. Bulb ejector device. Attached to torch-type body for two U2 cells. Two-pin socket for synchronising lead. Plastic diffuser and guard. Fitted with 0044.

Nebro flashgun

1955

Johnson's flash lamp, pat. No. 116501 with three containers of flash powder.

Johnson's flash lamp

Boots "Tickyfold" capacitor flash gun, c.1963.

Boots "Tickyfold" Capacitor Flash Gun

1963

Zeiss Mecablitz 163 flashgun in plastic case.

Zeiss Mecablitz 163 Flashgun in Plastic Case

'Flix Battery capacitor flash gun for use with capped expendable bulbs, c. 1954.

'Flix Battery Capacitor Flash Gun for use with Capped Expendable Bulbs

1954

Braun flashgun 1970-1980. In two parts

Braun flashgun

1970-1979

Ceramic device with annular groove for cotton wool and fitting for rubber tube and bulb (missing) by which magnesium powder, placed in central tube, may be blown through flame of burning methylated spirit soaked cotton wool. No.5888. Royal Doulton Ware for Kodak Limited.

Kodak Magnesium Flash Lamp

1907

Ilford Sprite 35 flash gun in original box, c. 1966.

Ilford Sprite 35 flash gun in original box

1966

Three photographic lamps, made by Kodak, Bilora and Argus

Photographic lamps

1945-1955

Blona flash-gun. Cylindrical flash-gun for PF1 capless bulbs. 8cm diameter silver crackle finish reflector. Capacitor circuit for B 122 22 1/2v battery. Bulb ejector button. Mounting bracket. 23cm lead with coaxial plug. Photopia. Stored in box.

Blona Flash Gun

Flashgun PRO 550

Asahi Pentax AF2005 electronic flash gun, 1980s.

Asahi Pentax AF2005 electronic flash gun

Norka patent magnesium flashlamp. Nordisk Kamera-Fabrik Kobenhavn. Metal tray with match-holder actuated by trigger mechanism.

Norka Patent Magnesium Flash Lamp Set

Brownie flasholder 4. Capacitor flash lamp for capless flash-bulbs. 5cm diameter polished reflector. Bulb ejector. Powered by B155. Screw and pin contacts. Manufactured by Kodak Ltd.

brownie flasholder 4

Duo-Lux Primus flashgun in plastic case and original carton. Made in Germany. For capless bulbs; folding fan-type refelctor; capacitor type; in plastic case and original carton.

Duo-Lux Primus flashgun

Head of Agfa magnesium flash powder flashgun. Flint wheel rotated by clockwork. Folding flash tray. Handle missing. Agfa.

Agfa flashgun

Kobold BC flash gun for expendable bulbs and two extension guns; all in original boxes.

Kobold BC Flash Gun

MPP Microflash flashgun for expendable bulbs.

T32 flash gun

Flashgun TX 25

Stewartry Standard Model flashgun for Leica cameras, with manual and the battery connecting cable. Use with a Leica camera model 1, 2, or 3 model. Couple to the shutter release mechanism thereby synchronising the flash. Stewartry Precission Instruments Ltd.; Hellington/ Glasgow. c. 1946.

Stewartry Standard Model Flashgun for Leica

circa 1946

Leitz Leica flash lamp with collapsible reflector complete in makers box. E. Leitz, c 1948.

Leitz Leica flash lamp, c 1948

circa 1948

Kodak amateur flashlight outfit. Metal cylinder 3 1/2 x 9 1/2 cm containing tray for flash powder, tube of flash powder and oxidant, three wax tapers and instruction sheet. Kodak Limited c.1924.

Kodak amateur flashlight outfit. Metal cylinder 3 1/2 x 9 1/2 cm containing tray for flash powder

1919-1929

flash lamp for open flash with flash powder. Ignition of the powder is effected by a milled disc which is caused to rotate against ordinary lighter flint. Spring of the flash gun is wound up by a key. The powder is spread in the tray around the milled disc. When the tension is triggered off the resulting spark ignites the flash powder. Agfa, c.1925

Flash lamp for open flash with flash powder

circa 1925

Ensigna amateur flashgun in original carton. Direction: Place handle on tray. Place cap on tray so the fulminate spot comes under firing point of hammer, spread flashpowder along the tray so that some touches the cap. Hold lamp to side and aboce camera. Fire by pressing trigger and releasing. Houghton & Butcher, London. c. 1918.

Ensign Amateur Flashgun

1918

Two flashlamps. One of them marked "Agfa".

Two Flashlamps

c.1938

Agfa 'Flashlight-Lamp' kit. Clockwork powered magnesium powder flashgun, 6.5 x 5cm folding tray with detachable handle. Serrated wheel working on flint, released by hand or cable release. Manufactured by Agfa, Germany, about 1922.

Flashlight-Lamp

1917-1927

Flash tray for magnesium powder with a clockwork mechanism that rotates striking wheel acting on flint. Released by a cable release. With detachable handle or table stand. Agfa, c.1923.

Agfa flashlamp

1918-1928

Flashgun TZ 2500

For AG1 type bulbs; small 35mm diameter polished reeflector; capacitor type; shoe, coaxial lead; calculator.

Voigtlander Flashgun

'Pocket Sunshine' Magnesium flash lamp, 'cigarette-case' form, containing five strands of magnesium ribbon fed seperately through tube. Thumbwheel for continuous feed 'suitable for Moving picture work'. Made in Germany.

'Pocket-Sunshine' Magnesium Flash Lamp

1927

Electronic flash unit for EK2 cameras; self-quenching, darken/lighten control test button, ready light.

Kodak Instant Flash Model A

Kalimar PM Multi-Bounce Flash Gun, in original packaging. Manufactured by Kalimar Inc, Japan 1962

Kalimar PM Multi-Bounce Flash Gun, in Original Packaging

1962

Small capacitor flash for AG1 bulbs; folddown reflector; hot shoe; socket for cable (see 1990-5036/8429); in plastic box.

Kodablitz Flashgun

1963

Foil-filled Sashlite flash bulb, Government code AM 5C/542. Bayonet cap.

Sashlite flash bulb

Pentax AF 400 FTZ electronic flash gun, c. 1980s.

Pentax AF 400 FTZ Electronic Flash Gun

1980-1990